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arXiv:2601.20867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt tuning has achieved remarkable progress in vision-language models (VLMs) and is recently being adopted for audio-language models (ALMs). However, its generalization ability in ALMs remains largely underexplored. We observe that conventional prompt tuning for ALMs also suffers from the Base-New Tradeoff, and we identify that this issue stems from the disrupted semantic structure of the embedding space. To address this issue, we propose Semantically Expanded Prompt Tuning (SEPT)-a plug-and-play framework that explicitly […]
Quantum machine learning (QML) has gained increasing attention as a potential solution to address the challenges of computation requirements in the future. Earth observation (EO) has entered the era of Big Data, and the computational demands for effectively analyzing large EO data with complex deep learning models have become a bottleneck. Motivated by this, we aim to leverage quantum computing for EO data classification and explore its advantages despite the current limitations of quantum devices. This paper presents […]
arXiv:2602.19691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Smooth activation functions are ubiquitous in modern deep learning, yet their theoretical advantages over non-smooth counterparts remain poorly understood. In this work, we study both approximation and statistical properties of neural networks with smooth activations for learning functions in the Sobolev space $W^{s,infty}([0,1]^d)$ with $s>0$. We prove that constant-depth networks equipped with smooth activations achieve smoothness adaptivity: increasing width alone suffices to attain the minimax-optimal approximation and estimation error rates (up to logarithmic […]
Catastrophic forgetting, the tendency of neural networks to forget previously learned knowledge when learning new tasks, has been a major challenge in continual learning (CL). To tackle this challenge, CL methods have been proposed and shown to reduce forgetting. Furthermore, CL models deployed in mission-critical settings can benefit from uncertainty awareness by calibrating their predictions to reliably assess their confidences. However, existing uncertainty-aware continual learning methods suffer from high computational overhead and incompatibility with mainstream replay methods. To […]
Non Pneumatic tires offer a promising alternative to pneumatic tires. However, their discontinuous spoke structures present challenges in stiffness tuning, durability, and high speed vibration. This study introduces an integrated generative design and machine learning driven framework to optimize UPTIS type spoke geometries for passenger vehicles. Upper and lower spoke profiles were parameterized using high order polynomial representations, enabling the creation of approximately 250 generative designs through PCHIP based geometric variation. Machine learning models like KRR for stiffness […]
The Mills ratio [1] is the ratio of the CCDF to the PDF. That is, for a random variable X, the Mills ratio at x is the complementary cumulative distribution function divided by the density function. If the density function of X is f, then The Mills ratio highlights an important difference between the Student t distribution and the normal distribution. Introductory statistics classes will say things like “you can approximate a t distribution with a normal if […]
I’ve been running a long-term experiment: can a single person, using neural networks, develop and maintain a massive codebase that matches banking solutions in reliability, while shipping features at the speed of a pet project? These are, of course, hardly compatible things, but my goal is to at least walk the path of a startup with 0 employees and tight deadlines. Currently, I’m working on a pet project, called Cynosure — an AI runtime in Golang aimed at […]
arXiv:2403.15711v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal representation learning (CRL) offers the promise of uncovering the underlying causal model by which observed data was generated, but the practical applicability of existing methods remains limited by the strong assumptions required for identifiability and by challenges in applying them to real-world settings. Most current approaches are applicable only to relatively restrictive model classes, such as linear or polynomial models, which limits their flexibility and robustness in practice. One promising approach to […]
Microsoft says it hears the complaints people have about the current state of Windows, and it wants to fix them. One of those fixes is another overhaul for its Windows Insider Program, the public beta system that Microsoft has used since Windows 10 to test and preview upcoming versions of the operating system and new app updates. The company hinted at this in its “commitment to Windows quality” post last month, and it’s announcing details today in another […]